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In a 76-count indictment, four executives of the former Peanut Corporation of America are accused of a cover-up in connection with a 2009 salmonella outbreak that sickened more than 700 people. They face charges tied to lying about test results, failing to alert consumers and altering documents to say "shipments of peanut products were free of pathogens when, in fact, there had been no tests on the products at all or when the laboratory results showed that a sample tested positive for salmonella," according to the Justice Department.

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Outbreaks of salmonella in Oklahoma, Illinois, Wisconsin and Minnesota have been tied to Barber Foods' frozen chicken products. CDC laboratory testing of four samples of the outbreak strain showed them all to be ampicillin- and tetracycline-resistant. Six of the nine food poisoning cases happened in Minnesota, while each of the remaining states had one reported case.

After a recall of millions of pounds of Cargill ground turkey, federal officials said they had discovered salmonella contamination last year but did not act until an outbreak that killed at least one person. "We have constraints when it comes to salmonella," said an official with the USDA, which does not consider salmonella dangerous until it is directly tied to an illness or death.

The Blakely, Ga., processing facility of the Peanut Corp. of America seems to be the sole source of a salmonella outbreak that has spread to 43 states, the Food and Drug Administration says. The plant is not operating as the investigation continues.

The Blakely, Ga., processing facility of the Peanut Corp. of America seems to be the sole source of a salmonella outbreak that has spread to 43 states, the Food and Drug Administration says. The plant is not operating as the investigation continues.